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After checking over one lakh people under cancer screening programme, the Punjab government’s Health Department has found 121 positive cases of cancer in the past six months. In a statement issued on Friday the state Health Department disclosed that these patients have been referred to the tertiary care at empanelled hospitals of the state so far. Health …

At least five newborns died in a medical college in Assam’s Barpeta district in last 24 hours while two more are in a critical condition, a hospital official said. The deaths were reported from the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College and Hospital in Barpeta since Wednesday evening. The college’s Principal-cum-Chief Superintendent Dilip Kumar Dutta on …

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said he will request Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal to approve appointment of pharmacists in the city hospitals to avoid long queues for medicines, said an official. The announcement came hours after he conducted surprise visits at two city hospitals — LNJP and GB Pant — earlier on Tuesday. …

BJP President Amit Shah on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh saying its Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh is synonymous with corruption. “He (Virbhadra) is known as a corrupt Chief Minister,” he said at a public rally in this town, some 200 km from Shimla. Shah, who had donned a …

The Tripura government has recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the “poor quality” of work undertaken by central government agencies, like Hindustan Steel Works Construction Ltd, in the northeastern state, a state Minister said here on Tuesday. Tripura PWD and Health Minister Badal Choudhury said the demand was raised during the two-day …

The CBI has registered an FIR against Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain in connection with an alleged money laundering case, the agency sources said. The CBI was carrying out a ‘preliminary enquiry’ (PE) against Jain to probe allegations of money laundering against him, they said. The agency has now converted the PE into an FIR …

Following the deaths of over 30 children at a Gorakhpur hospital, Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Siddhartha Nath Singh and Medical Education Minister Ashutosh Tandon left for the town on Saturday to review the situation. The children at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital died over the past few days due to encephalitis after reported …

Punjab health minister Brahm Mohindra on Saturday issued instructions to 11 concerned departments to make arrangements to curb any potential dengue outbreak in the rainy season. An official spokesperson said that the minister has convened an inter-department meeting of concerned 11 departments on Monday to review their preparedness to prevent and combat dengue in the …

In a landmark decision in the history of medical academics so far, the government on Thursday approved 4,000 post graduate (PG) medical seats in various medical colleges and hospitals for the academic session 2017-18. The move makes the total number of PG seats available now 35,117. "In a huge boost to medical education in the …

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Wednesday inspected three mid-day meal kitchens in north Delhi and collected food samples which he sent for examination to a laboratory. A government official said Jain, along with the officials of health and food safety departments, visited kitchens in Burari and Jagatpur areas of north Delhi where mid-day meal …